100 days of enemy recs: 89. Deep Space Nine

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The main Deep Space Nine enemy(ish) pairing is Garak/Bashir. Garak is the Cardassian tailor left behind by the occupying Cardassians when they evacuated the Bajor system - but is he more than just a tailor? Is he, perhaps, a spy? Bashir is the naive and perky Federation doctor who arrives with the new Federation-led administration of the old Cardassian station - but he is hiding a dark secret of his own.

The dark secrets thing is kind of a side issue, though. Mostly they engage in recreational cultural exchange across the gulf of enemy nations with a new and troubled peace. And flirt. A lot.

• pouring just a hint (8925 words) by susiecarter
  Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Julian Bashir/Elim Garak
  Additional Tags: Misunderstandings, Miscommunication, Mutual Pining, Alien Cultural Differences, Original Character(s)
  Summary:

  Julian doesn't think about it much these days. Why should he, when it's been so long?

  But when he does, if he does, well—he considers it part and parcel of Garak, that's all. Disconcerting at first, a little invasive. Awfully close to a line but not quite crossing it, and leaving Julian with absolutely no idea what he's meant to do in response. Garak in microcosm, summarized in a single unexpected gesture.

  (Or: Julian has always thought Garak just had a weird little habit. Until another Cardassian does the same thing to him, and seems to imbue the gesture with a meaning Julian really had not anticipated.)




• Learning the Language (13427 words) by Allemande
  Chapters: 2/2
  Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Julian Bashir/Elim Garak
  Additional Tags: Romance, Friendship, Post-War, Rebuilding, Friends to Lovers, Post-Canon
  Series: Part 1 of Learning the Language
  Summary:

  Julian Bashir joins the post-war effort on Cardassia Prime because it seems like the most obvious thing to do: No planet is worse off after the war, he's a doctor, and they don't have enough of those. He's learning the language, because that's what you do when you're living somewhere for an indefinite amount of time. But he soon realizes that language isn't just about vocabulary and grammar, and learns a few things about his own past along the way.




• Proof (81316 words) by AlphaCygni
  Chapters: 13/13
  Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek
  Rating: Mature
  Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  Relationships: Elim Garak/Cardassia, Elim Garak/Kelas Parmak, Julian Bashir/Elim Garak
  Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Cardassia, Enemies to Friends, Interspecies Book Club, POV Elim Garak, POV Julian Bashir, References to Shakespeare, Episode: s03e05 Second Skin, Obsidian Order, Angst
  Summary:

  Enabran Tain has retired, and Garak has been second-in-command of the Obsidian Order for over three years. His next assignment is the interrogation of Cardassia’s newest detainee, a Federation doctor charged with espionage.

The other important enemyslash ship in this fandom is Quark/Odo, which I have not read as much of but I'm pretty sure is what I actually shipped when I was watching the show in first run, because they are just so delightfully combative, and delighted about it, so here is a Quark/Odo bonus rec.

your accent mixing with mine (8931 words) by spacebubble
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Odo/Quark, Elim Garak & Odo, Garak/Bashir (background)
Additional Tags: Conversations, Language, Affectionate Insults, Shapeshifting, Pet Names, Character Study, and a burgeoning friendship with a detail-obsessed tinker tailor etcetera, Universal Translators, Translator Malfunctions
Summary:

The station's universal translators are malfunctioning, but Quark and Odo don't have a problem understanding each other.